He whistled as he unloaded the moving van. It was a jaunty, off-key tune, but it perfectly reflected the joy bubbling inside him. The air felt crisper, the sunlight brighter, everything seemed to be gleaming.

His mother bustled out, offering him a cool glass of iced tea. "Welcome back, sweetheart," she said, her voice soft with affection. He took a long, refreshing sip, and his smile widened.

Later, as he sat in his old room, surrounded by familiar objects, a sense of immense contentment washed over him. He felt safe, loved, and completely at peace. He felt good, really good. His mind was clear and his heart was full.

Emotion: ecstatic

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.16 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.15

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion ecstatic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 ecstatic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the ecstatic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the ecstatic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
!0.588
ecstatic0.560
de0.559
🤩0.548
overjoyed0.547
Suppressed:
S-0.678
😞-0.500
ness-0.405
😔-0.368
😥-0.359